Ensio Siilasvuo

Ensio Siilasvuo (1 January 1922-10 January 2003) was a general of the Finnish Army.

Biography
Ensio was born on 1 January 1922, the son of general Hjalmar Siilasvuo. Like his father before him, the younger Siilasvuo joined the Finnish Army and fought in the Winter War against the Soviet Union, becoming chief-of-staff of an infantry regiment with the rank of Captain in 1944. After the war, he became a United Nations peacekeeping commander, leading missions to Cyprus in 1965, to the Middle East after 1967, and to the Sinai from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1980, he commanded all UN forces in the Middle East. He retired with the rank of full general in 1998, and he died in 2003.